English
Etymology
capital + punishment, originally by beheading or decapitating
Noun
capital punishment (countable and uncountable, plural capital punishments)
- The practice of putting a person to death as a punishment for a crime.
Translations
punishment by death
- Arabic: إِعْدَام m (ʔiʕdām), عُقُوبَة اَلْإِعْدَام f (ʿuqūbat al-ʾiʿdām), عُقُوبَة اَلْمَوْت f (ʿuqūbat al-mawt)
- Armenian: մահապատիժ (hy) (mahapatiž)
- Azerbaijani: edam
- Bulgarian: смъртно наказание n (smǎrtno nakazanie)
- Catalan: pena capital f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 死刑 (zh) (sǐxíng), 極刑／极刑 (zh) (jíxíng), 极刑 (zh) (jíxíng), 死罪 (zh) (sǐzuì)
- Czech: trest smrti m
- Danish: dødsstraf (da) c
- Dutch: doodstraf (nl) f
- Estonian: surmanuhtlus
- Finnish: kuolemanrangaistus (fi)
- French: peine capitale (fr) f, peine de mort (fr) f, punition capitale f
- Georgian: სასჯელის უმაღლესი ზომა (sasǯelis umaɣlesi zoma)
- German: Todesstrafe (de) f
- Greek: θανατική ποινή (el) f (thanatikí poiní), έσχατη ποινή f (éschati poiní)
- Hungarian: halálbüntetés (hu)
- Icelandic: dauðarefsing (is) f
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- Indonesian: hukuman mati (id)
- Irish: pionós báis m
- Italian: pena capitale
- Japanese: 死刑 (ja) (しけい, shikei), 極刑 (きょっけい, kyokkei), 死罪 (しざい, shizai)
- Korean: 사형 (ko) (sahyeong) (死刑)
- Latin: punitio capitalis f
- Latvian: nāvessods m
- Macedonian: смртна казна f (smrtna kazna)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dødsstraff m
- Nynorsk: dødsstraff f
- Polish: kara śmierci (pl) f, najwyższy wymiar kary m
- Portuguese: pena de morte (pt) f, pena capital f
- Russian: сме́ртная казнь (ru) f (smértnaja kaznʹ), вы́сшая ме́ра наказа́ния (ru) f (výsšaja méra nakazánija)
- Slovene: smrtna kazen (sl) f
- Spanish: castigo capital m, pena capital (es) f
- Swedish: dödsstraff (sv) n
- Tagalog: parusang kamatayan
- Tamil: மரணதண்டனை (ta) (maraṇataṇṭaṉai)
- Vietnamese: tử hình (vi)
- Volapük: deadapönod
- Welsh: dienyddio (cy) m
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